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[quote=Anonymous] My best advice is to integrate the dreaded chore into a daily routine, it will be less painful that way because more automatic. You may have to force him at first, and it might mean some battles. Power through them and it will get better (unless there's dyslexia or other learning disability underlying his lack of motivation). Wean him off incentives, because what you want is to instill a sense of inner satisfaction for completing the work. In our experience incentives have never made DS develop a love of the subject. We have tried any incentive possible to motivate DS in math - money, outings, books (he's a bookworm), toys, etc. Every incentive worked for a couple of weeks, then fizzles out, so we just gave up and simply enforced math homework every day after school. You can't twist someone's brain and make them like something that is intrinsically unpalatable to them. What you can do is instill good work ethics. [/quote]
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